Ricardo Flores Magon

Ricardo Flores Magon (16 September 1874-21 November 1922) was a Mexican anarchist who was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s.

Biography
Ricardo Flores Magon was born in San Antonio Eloxochitlan, Oaxaca, Mexico in 1874, the son of a Zapotec father and a mestiza mother. He and his brothers Enrique and Jesus Flores Magon became followers of the anarchist movement, and he became active in politics as the President of the Mexican Liberal Party. In 1904, he went into exile in the United States due to his oppositional activities under Porfirio Diaz, and he organized a brigade of revolutionaries while he was living in Arizona. He had many legal troubles due to his revolutionary activities, which were violations of American neutrality. When the Mexican Revolution broke out, Flores assisted Francisco Madero in overthrowing Diaz's government, and he spoke out against American economic intervention in Mexico. In 1917, he was imprisoned by the US for violating the Espionage Act, and he died at Leavenworth in 1922.